Research Interests

Public Policy, International Political Economy, European Politics, British Politics, Environmental Politics, Urban Development

A political scientist by training, my major area of research and expertise includes the politics of occupational health and safety and environmental regulation, international political economy and the politics of developed countries.

Wooding, J.C., Gerson, J. (2001) "Understanding the Political Geography of the Region: Sustainable Development and the University," Approaches to sustainable development: The public university in the regional economy pp. 149-164

Wooding, J.C., Levenstein, C. (1999) "The Point of Production : Work Environment in Advanced Industrial Societies,"

Wooding, J.C., Kuhn, S. (1997) "The Changing Structure of Work in the United States: Part 1--The Impact on Income and Benefits," Work, health, and environment: Old problems, new solutions pp. 19-40

Wooding, J.C., Kuhn, S. (1997) "The Changing Structure of Work in the United States: Part 2--The Implications for Health and Welfare," Work, health, and environment: Old problems, new solutions pp. 41-51

Wooding, J.C., Kuhn, S. (1994) "The Changing Structure of Work in the United States: Part 1---The Impact on Income and Benefits," New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy 5:2 pp. 43

John Wooding, David Wegman and Kimberley Rauscher,"Massachusetts, U.S.A.," in Lundberg, Ingvar; Hemmingsson, Tomas and Hogstedt, Christer (eds.), Work and Social Inequalities in Health in Europe, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2007., 2007

- Annual Conference of American Association for Continuing Education, November 2006 - San Diego, California

Discussant: Diversity and Community - Diversity, Culture and Sustainable Development, Committee On Industrial Theory and Assessment Conference, November 2002 - University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Child and Adolescent Labor in the Americas - Second Annual Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health, June 2002 - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Discussant: Child and Adolescent Labor in the Americas - Second Annual Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health, June 2002 - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Low Expectations: Working Conditions from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries - –Dickens in America" Conference, April 2002 - Lowell,Massachusetts

Workforce Development in a Multi-ethnic Community: The J.O.B.S. Program and the University - Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, March 2002

Jeffrey Gerson and John Wooding, –Understanding the Political Geography of the Region: Sustainable Development and the University," in Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy, Jean Pyle, Robert Forrant, William Lazonick and Charles Levenstein (eds.), University of Massachusetts Press (2001), 2001

Diversity and Community - Diversity, Culture and Sustainable Development, Committee On Industrial Theory and Assessment Conference, November 2001 - Lowell,Massachusetts

Building Bridges: Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Programs and the University - The Role of the University in a Globalizing Economy, Committee On Industrial Theory and Assessment Conference, October 2000 - Lowell,Massachusetts

John Wooding and Charles Levenstein, The Point of Production: The Political Economy of the Work Environment, Guilford Press (1999), 1999

Twilight Zones? Assessing Social Equity and Social Health in the Community Enterprise and Empowerment Programs - Healthy Communities, Social Equity and Sustainable Development, October 1999 - University of Massachusetts Lowell

Beth Rosenberg, Charles Levenstein, and John Wooding, –Down On the Farm: The Agricultural Extension Service as a Model for Manufacturing?" in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 8, no. 3,, September 1998

Understanding the Political Geography of the Region: Sustainable Development and the University - Approaches to Sustainable Development, Committee On Industrial Theory and Assessment Conference, October 1997 - University of Massachusetts, Lowell

John Wooding, review of Occupation and Disease: How Social Factors Affect the Conception of Work Related Disorders, Allard Demby in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 7, no. 2, July 1997

Health and Safety in a Global Economy: Trinidad and Development - International Symposium on the Work Environment, January 1997 - Trinidad

Dying For A Living - Conference on the Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, December 1996 - Amherst, Massachusetts

Labor and the Left: The League for Industrial Democracy and the Conditions of Work - Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1994 - New York City

The Work Environment and the Global Economy - Conference on Work and Health in the Global Economy, September 1994 - Toronto, Canada

US Labor and the Environmental Movement - Fifth Annual Symposium of the United States and Eastern Europe Exchange for Occupational and Environmental Health, June 1994 - Nitra, Slovakia

Sarah Kuhn and John Wooding, "The Changing Structure of Work in the US: Part II - The Implications for Health and Welfare," in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 4, no. 4, January 1994

- American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, October 1993 - San Francisco

Panel Chair: Environmental Racism at Work - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, October 1993 - San Francisco, CA

The Changing Structure of Work in the U.S. - Measuring the Social Inequalities of Health, September 1993 - Annapolis, Maryland

- Fourth Annual Symposium of the United States and Eastern Europe Exchange for Occupational and Environmental Health, June 1993 - Eger, Hungary

Sarah Kuhn and John Wooding, "The Changing Structure of Work in the US: Part I - The Impact on Income and Benefits," in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 4, no. 3, January 1993

John Wooding, "The Regulation of Occupational Health and Safety in the U.S. and Western Europe: Models for Democratic Control," in Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health During Societal Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Management Sciences for Health, Boston, Massachusetts (1992), 1992

The Regulation of Occupational Health and Safety in the United States - Commonwealth Of Independent States Trades Union Seminar, November 1992 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Dying For a Living in the New World Order: Occupational and Environmental Health in Post-Communist States - Marxism and the New World Order: Crisis and Possibilities. Rethinking Marxism Conference, November 1992 - Amherst, Massachusetts

Paper: The Regulation of Health and Safety in the United States: Models for Democratic Control? - Third Annual Symposium of the United States and Eastern Europe Exchange for Occupational and Environmental Health, June 1992 - Pultusk, Poland

John Wooding, Charles Levenstein, Charles Noble (et al), "Roundtable on OSHA at Twenty: Part II" in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 2, no. 1, June 1991

John Wooding, Charles Levenstein, Charles Noble (et al), "Roundtable on OSHA at Twenty: What Now?" in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 1, no. 4, January 1991

John Wooding, review of Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community, Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher, in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 2, no. 2, July 1990

John Wooding, "Dire States: Occupational Safety and Health in the Reagan-Thatcher Era," in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Public Health Policy, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1990

John Wooding and Charles Noble, "The Struggle for Nature: A Reply," in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, vol., 1, no. 3, January 1990

Jack Luskin, John Wooding, and Charles Levenstein, "Worker Training and Education," in Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1989